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Join us each month as we discuss a popular business book. Each episode features a summary of the book's contents, key takeaway points, a discussion of its merits, and applications in the real world. Hosted by David Kopec, David Short, and Kevin Hudak.
Unknown Host hosts Business Books & Co., a business show with 56 episodes published.
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The New New Thing by Michael Lewis is the story of entrepreneur and computer scientist Jim Clark, the heady days of the 1990s .com bubble, and the companies he started. Namely, Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon.
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We went to the depths of hell in Doom Guy with John Romero and to the heights of Apple’s success in Apple: The First 50 Years with David Pogue. Season 5 of Business Books & Co. had it all. From author interviews to deep
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Apple, one of the largest and most influential companies in corporate history, just celebrated its 50th anniversary. From its romantic beginnings as the visionary project of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to its current gl
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Although the field of Artificial Intelligence has been around since the 1950s, it's only in the last few years, with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), that the general public has truly taken notice. Apps based on
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini is one of the best-selling books on social psychology of all-time. Influence explains the essential ingredients that make what it calls "compliance professionals
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The development of quantitative trading has led to an enormous accumulation of wealth amongst a few large hedge funds. A pioneer in this space was Renaissance Technologies and its founder, Jim Simons. Instead of relying
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Apple has deeply intertwined its business with the People’s Republic of China. In Apple in China , this fraught relationship is explored, including its implications for the future of manufacturing, high technology, and A
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Bill Gates is known as the aggressive businessman who brought us Microsoft and pioneered the modern software business. But in his recent memoir, Source Code , we discover Trey, the kid with bad grades who resents his par
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John Romero is widely regarded as one of the greatest game developers of all time. In his 2023 autobiography, Doom Guy: Life in First Person , he recounts his journey from a sometimes difficult upbringing to the heights
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Daniel Kahneman is an award winning psychologist who made Nobel Prize winning contributions to the field of behavioral economics. In Thinking, Fast and Slow he recounts his research journey and makes digestible to the re
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Silicon legend Pat Gelsinger joins us to discuss his book The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work . How do you live a balanced life, including prioritizing your faith and family, while achievin
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Season 4 of Business Books & Co. was comprised of nine highly regarded books, three author interviews, and one special guest. Join us as we look back at the highs and lows of the past season of the show. And we won't hol
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First released in 2018, Atomic Habits by James Clear has quickly become one of the best-selling self-help books of all-time. Clear meticulously studied the psychology and practical side of forming good habits and elimina
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There are timeless principles that underlie stock trading. In this episode we discuss Reminiscences of a Stock Operator , considered by many to be a classic work in the space. First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a
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Trader Joe's is an iconic American grocery chain. And yes, there was an actual Trader Joe. In this episode we interview Patty Civalleri, the co-author with Joe Coulombe of Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way a
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We discuss the 2017 memoir Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell. Zell was the billionaire founder of Equity Residential, Equity International, and EQ Office. In addition he had controll
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Love him or hate him, Elon Musk is perhaps the most accomplished and influential leader in today's business landscape. Dive into the definitive biography, Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, on our latest episode. Spanning 700
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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo is a self-help book for anyone who regularly makes presentations. Whether you're an executive, analyst, marketer,
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough is a history of the companies, entrepreneurs, technologists, and financiers who launched the modern online world. Covering the years 1993 to 2008
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The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is a modern management classic. It's about bringing the scientific method to the forefront at the start of a new enterprise. Instead of following a classic waterfall development methodology,
David Pogue
CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent
1 appearance on this show
James Wang
Vice President and General Director of Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories · Industrial Technology Research Institute
1 appearance on this show
Patrick McGee
Financial Times San Francisco correspondent and author of Apple in China · Financial Times
1 appearance on this show
John Romero
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Kahneman
Nobel laureate in Economics
1 appearance on this show
Pat Gelsinger
CEO · Intel
1 appearance on this show
Brad Mills
Central Baptist Church
1 appearance on this show
Elon Musk
President Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency
1 appearance on this show
Carmine Gallo
three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Harvard instructor · Gallo Communications Group
1 appearance on this show
Nik Bhatia
financial researcher, CFA charterholder, Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at USC Marshall School of Business · USC
1 appearance on this show
Chris Voss
former FBI hostage negotiator, author of Never Split the Difference, CEO · The Black Swan Group
1 appearance on this show
Jimmy Soni
CEO and editor in chief · Infinite Books
1 appearance on this show
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